The Leviathan field was one of the world's largest offshore natural gas finds this past decade.
Tehran's ambassador to Lebanon, Qazanfar Roknabadi, last month claimed that three-quarters of the Leviathan field actually belongs to Lebanon.
Of course there is one exception to this trend of banks becoming more British, which is the leviathan called HSBC.
The Leviathan field appeared to be a supergiant, according to three-dimensional seismic studies, with almost twice the gas reserves of Tamar.
In real terms, spending would continue to grow, but at least the leviathan would start to be cut down to size.
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Among the leviathan landholders were those who took care of their workers, some patronizingly, others with a genuine measure of respect.
The Leviathan may be mightier than ever, but there are more and more Captain Ahabs trying to get their harpoons in.
Hobbes would warn that people will recoil against belonging to government when the government that owns them lacks the absolute natural and supernatural authority of the Leviathan.
Regardless, someone is paying for the leviathan we call government.
Moreover, the fiscal, monetary and macroeconomic effects will be significant as the Levant Basin, the area of the Leviathan and other fields, emerges as a source of energy exports.
Earlier this month, a test conducted by the Leviathan Security Group showed that even "no-permissions" Android apps can access potentially sensitive data on your phone -- and transmit that data elsewhere via your phone's Web browser.
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With the recent confirmation of the Leviathan field, an offshore natural gas discovery able to meet total domestic demand for approximately 40 years, Israel has entered a new and potentially remarkable era of energy exploration and production.
This was my problem with the Leviathan DLC: by the time it came out, I already understood both the mechanics of the narrative and the specific impact of war assets and combat readiness on the ending of the game.
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As an advocate for religious freedom in full and religious freedom for all, the new pope can help to strengthen civil society and its free institutions, which are both elementary schools of democracy and barriers against the encroachment of the Leviathan state.
Finally, Athens has set out to expand their local production potential by offering exploration bids off their Western coast, as well as entering into discussions with Cyprus in a bid to set up Greece as a transport hub for natural gas from the Leviathan natural gas field.
Living as we do in a reflated bubble, lurching from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis, misinformed by journalists and pundits so deeply invested in the Leviathan state that they can no longer imagine what life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness look like, there are few places where one can take refuge from the gathering storm.
The further Leviathan reaches, the more special interests latch to its tentacles.
Instead of scaling back state spending and regulations, politicians and pundits today prefer to re-jigger the tax code yet again, so as to deflect attention away from the size of Leviathan to the means by which it is financed.
As such, it was already clear that, no matter how massive and powerful the mysterious Leviathan might be, it would have to be nerfed within the narrative.
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The software leviathan stunned a rookery of Linux users yesterday at a conference and expo in Boston with the revelation that it will now provide technical support for the open-source software running on Virtual Server, and would make Virtual Server 2005 R2 available free.
This brings us to the third member of the triad the federal Leviathan.
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It is no longer the arrogant leviathan that would crush you like a bug for competing with it, or, in my case, for writing nasty things about it.
Going beyond three disciplines, for most companies, leads to spreading the peanut butter too thinly, and creates temptation for the global Leviathan to creep too far into local marketing execution.
Chaired by author and broadcaster David McWilliams (who allegedly coined the phrase "Celtic Tiger"), the monthly Leviathan nights now pop up as much in muddy festival fields as proper theatres.
For healthy economic growth rates to return, these zombies need to be allowed to expire (that means bankruptcy for the private-sector zombies, and a massive down-sizing, if not the outright dissolution, of the federal leviathan) so that valuable economic resources can be reallocated to more rational, wealth-producing ventures.
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The federal government, that unwieldy leviathan, should be the last resort.
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For instance, developers sometimes build apps that store user data (such as usernames and passwords) in ways that could be easily accessed through the security cracks Leviathan found.
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They are not even on the public access leviathan YouTube.
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This was followed by the passage of two Leviathan-sized regulatory bills: one that pulled more of the healthcare and insurance industries under federal control, and another that further centralized federal control over the financial industry.
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